/Rant/ The Evolution of Spam: Invoking Snopes

Posted: 19th November 2008 by Josh in Uncategorized
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Please pass this on to all your friends. Sears needs to be recognized for this outstanding contribution and we need to show them as Americans, we do appreciate what they are doing for our military!!!

It’s verified ! By Snopes.comat:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.as

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This SPAM email tells me that it’s verified by Snopes (It even gives a URL!), so I’m going to believe it and SPAM the rest of my address book!

Believe it or not, this is what happened to me recently.  If anyone even cared to click on the Snopes link (first checking to make sure that it acutally went to snopes.com and not some phishing site), you would see a big, fat, 404.

But, after doing a little digging around on snopes, I came to realize that it actually is on Snopes, but that they forgot the letter p on the .asp of the URL.  So the actually URL should be:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.asp

I found it very interesting that people are starting to justify there spamming by invoking Snopes.com, as if it legitmizes their practice of spamming.

The moral of this post is two-fold:

1. If you are going to use Snopes.com to justify your SPAM,

please make sure you spell the URL correctly.

2. Please stop SPAMMING me, even if it IS verified by Snopes.

-Josh